I want to see an airplane in Minecraft...maybe?

I am thinking a simple aircraft design that could be progressed as you advanced in the world.

As an early level (Just starting to find diamond) you could construct a Cessna-type plane using mainly iron, powered by gunpowder (Only good explosive substance), or they could add oil.

When you are in the Nether but not yet past the End, there would be the ability to make a jet. This would require a lot of fuel however, and would use Blaze powder. It would require a lot of iron ( I would say half a stack of iron blocks at least worth of it).

Then, there would be the final endgame project, which would require at least a stack of diamond and many stacks of iron, as well as a Nether Star, would allow you to travel hundreds of blocks a second and would be good for the End, if you could find a suitable runway. (Any flat area 100 blocks long about would do. It wouldn't be realistic.)

I am thinking a simple aircraft design that could be progressed as you advanced in the world.

As an early level (Just starting to find diamond) you could construct a Cessna-type plane using mainly iron, powered by gunpowder (Only good explosive substance), or they could add oil.

When you are in the Nether but not yet past the End, there would be the ability to make a jet. This would require a lot of fuel however, and would use Blaze powder. It would require a lot of iron ( I would say half a stack of iron blocks at least worth of it).

Then, there would be the final endgame project, which would require at least a stack of diamond and many stacks of iron, as well as a Nether Star, would allow you to travel hundreds of blocks a second and would be good for the End, if you could find a suitable runway. (Any flat area 100 blocks long about would do. It wouldn't be realistic.)

This belongs in the suggestions area if anywhere.

I don't ever see this working in vanilla, but sounds like it could be a neat little mod.

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1: Why are you assuming somewhat modern planes? What if, rather than a modern-looking plane, you got something more in line with planes from the 1910s, with the most expensive and endgame planes being things from the late WW1 such as all metal planes (Such as the Junkers DI), large planes such as the Sykorsky Illya Mourometz or the R-series bombers; and high-speed biplanes similar to the DH4 (Which wasn't even a fighter, but as a bomber, it was to the WWI more or less what the Mosquito was to WWII)? Or, alternatively, ultralight planes such as the Colomban Cri-Cri (Which generally looks like how an MC plane would look like, apart from not being blocky) and most pusher planes would also fit.

2: Why would gunpowder be used as fuel? Lava would make a bit of sense, and, judging by how Minecarts with Furnaces use coal, shouldn't planes use coal or charcoal as well? Specially as it's possible to make synthetic oil from coal. Alternatively, biofuel would also fit, and beets are rather efficient at that IRL, so beetroots could become more useful that way-

3: The "endgame project" already sounds awfully bad, as it wouldn't even be able to fully take advantage of it's speed if it needs such a long runway, considering that it would likely need a similar one to land, even before taking chunk loading mechanics (Effectively making it useless even for sightseeing).

4: Is there any content related to aircraft that more or less requires them? That would be a pretty good reason to make them, and would also make them fun to use in SSP.

i use traincraft's zeppelin to fly around and it does the job pretty well

while a plane going up and down can be messy i think something like a ballon could be better

A plane going up or down wouldn't be too messy. It's just changing the angle of the airplane in relation to the horizontal plane. What would be messy would be the aerodynamics, and, even then, being unable to stall out is something few people would complain about.